asciilifeform: but 'same input, same output'

asciilifeform: naturally

asciilifeform: well not 1:1

asciilifeform: repeatably.

asciilifeform: i don't want ~an~ n-bit prime, i want THE n-bit prime corresponding to arbitrary n-bit input I.

asciilifeform: let's hear now ?

asciilifeform: in n-bit ffa arithm.

asciilifeform: that doesn't auto-map a n-bit integer to an n-bit prime.

asciilifeform: waiwat

asciilifeform: one or the other, per packet

asciilifeform: apeloyee: with 4096b rsa troo

asciilifeform: making nonseekrit primes quickly, say

asciilifeform: reminds asciilifeform of his brother's 'from old flat, you brought mouse spores !!'

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: 'where is next prime' is perfectly legit wrench in any respectable numeric toolbox, wat

asciilifeform: it dun matter if it leaks, for a public constant neh

asciilifeform: apeloyee: sorta why i suggested making pub-exp nextprime(keccak(commentstring)). satisfies the basic req of e being 1) long 2) nonstandardized

asciilifeform would rather pick up in person, when he finally gets around to visiting mircea_popesculandia

asciilifeform: oh neato

asciilifeform: and one of these is the unfragged ip packet.

asciilifeform: the sad thing is that ( at least until we get, e.g., the shortwave net, going ) there are some boxes of fixed size, that in practice gotta be sat down into if at all possible

asciilifeform: apeloyee: it makes , e.g., udp (512byte) impossible.

asciilifeform: the 'everyone has same e' thing was slipped in under clinton , when his nsa invested in 'acre of asics' with e=3|e=65537 presumption baked in

asciilifeform: this in fact worx. but makes for heavy sigs.

asciilifeform: that modulus -- suffices for identity

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: apeloyee was extending the http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-08#1734664 argument, as i understand ☝︎

asciilifeform: the amount of computation that you must do, and bits you must buffer, to do friend-or-foe, is considerably larger.

asciilifeform: right, but to do it, you first have to receive proposed exp 'on faith' at that endpoint

asciilifeform: not if i have '9000' entry points to my gossip net, each of which rejects malformed rsa packets in O(1) at line speed

asciilifeform: in either case, in practice enemy can drown you

asciilifeform: apeloyee: by same argument, '1 bit of the modulus is sufficient to init conversation, after it we'll agree on next bit' etc

asciilifeform: oh neato

asciilifeform: and lolcatz

asciilifeform: but hey you can download winblowz 10 at 25MB/sec !11111

asciilifeform: nowhere else, was subj preserved ( outside of possibly similar archive in moscow, possibly )

asciilifeform: when asciilifeform wanted to read lysenko in the original , he had to visit the rarest-rarities reading room in american national lib of medicine

asciilifeform: i found last yr, somewhat surprisingly, that the works of stalin are not sitting in plain txt anywhere

asciilifeform: ikr ?

asciilifeform: this makes sense

asciilifeform: maybe ants also have complicated requirements for how to humiliate. but ! ddt still worx!

asciilifeform: what's wrong with meat humiliation.

asciilifeform: why does it have to be a paper humiliation.

asciilifeform: mebbe this shows that asciilifeform is same sort of peasant as the shoemaker, but finding it hard to see why not counts. having pantsuit hoisted on a public stake would even moar count imho

asciilifeform: i was thinking of the 'i hereby order mr.pantsuit caught and fed some radium' instances.

asciilifeform: dunno, supposedly he did make it somewhat painful for some of'em later

asciilifeform: that's a 'did he do his homework' moment.

asciilifeform: troo.

asciilifeform: ( or even consider the famous last balcony scene )

asciilifeform: yea visible from the surviving material readily

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: d00d did know ru tho. so could have, in theory, read the german thinkers, neh

asciilifeform: (src, http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/N2TRJ/?raw=true )

asciilifeform: 'я русский бы выучил. только за то,. что им. разговаривал Ленин' (tm)(r)(mayakovsky)

asciilifeform: but where

asciilifeform: i'd enjoy eating. once i get past '5th grade' level of rotaku.

asciilifeform: got reading recs for subj ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in every case he had a point.

asciilifeform: i regret to report that even after 25yr of usaschwitz it still makesnosense.

asciilifeform: yea

asciilifeform: and never quite stopped rubbing it in . 'hey that loaf of bread you ate in timis ? we had these, and cost 3 kopeiki' etc

asciilifeform: asciilifeform's elder brother did however witness 'golden age' .

asciilifeform: ( though did not live as long as mircea_popescu )

asciilifeform: well similarly asciilifeform was there for gorby

asciilifeform: good half of just about anything, dug up by archaeologists, similarly makesnosense

asciilifeform nao even has that selfsame hat. walks in to visit family, they immediately : 'brezhnev!'

asciilifeform: the hat man's, that is

asciilifeform: hey i'm all for the regime right nao!111

asciilifeform: ( nicu is exactly vasiliy )

asciilifeform: complete with prodigal son etc

asciilifeform: same problem as stalin

asciilifeform: i.e. for all i know shoemaker & co were about to start making ivories

asciilifeform: even pacepa's b00k describes a ~working~ pilfered vlsi lab

asciilifeform: so 'had problems'. with the murder weapon being 'uprising'

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: ( really a bus )

asciilifeform: sorta why ethernet is a net, not a point-to-point port

asciilifeform: if you have 2, each can be turned into as many as you want, with ordinary iron switches.

asciilifeform: multiplying jacks is what the switch is for

asciilifeform: there's no particular reason to insist that the ~router~ have >2 jacks

asciilifeform: what are you making, BingoBoingo , the exit router ?

asciilifeform: approx same physical dimensions

asciilifeform: for only slightly higher cost you get those amd g-series boxen ( e.g. 'pcengines' )

asciilifeform: ( it's a straightforward bsd target, for instance )

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i dun have anything against the 'octeon' per se ironwise. just be sure to build own os for it.

asciilifeform: and gorby.

asciilifeform: but e.g. obummer still alive.

asciilifeform: thebeoble have always 'had enuff'

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-14#1737762 << the nazi-hunters, it would seem , disagreed with this. 100 y.o. d00d could still, hypothetically, know where he buried the gold etc ☝︎

asciilifeform: re the shoemaker, asciilifeform still can't fully shake the traditional ru version , where man was plugged for paying off his national debt, rather than 'the beoble Finally Had Enuff!' usgolade nonsense.

asciilifeform: ( at least the american one )

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-14#1737763 << this is unashamedly printed on the jacket of the present-day edition, even ☝︎

asciilifeform: ( in his place i wouldn't )

asciilifeform: i'd expect he dun take the trains tho.

asciilifeform: it wouldn't surprise asciilifeform to learn that d00d lives not far .

asciilifeform: ah lol the ro eltsin

asciilifeform: ( this is universal crack in 'dissident runaway' autobios )

asciilifeform: aha, and somehow reader is expected to believe that d00d 'always hated communism' etc

asciilifeform: or take the 'it was really the demented witch' narrative. invites the q, why did nobody have for her any poison ? really, none of the flunkies ?

asciilifeform: ( re ro crackpottery, asciilifeform is 2/3 through pacepa's tome , and marvels over the d00d's complete omission of how ~he himself~ came to be loyal servant of 'worst ever cruellest evil emperor' )

asciilifeform: considering the venerable ancient ukrs.

asciilifeform: i'm not esp surprised re etruscans item